China could be the first nation to visit the dark side of the Moon, with the country’s state media announcing plans today to send a probe to the satellite’s unexplored hemisphere in 2018. A spacecraft named Chang’e-4 will attempt the mission, said Liu Jizhong, head of China’s lunar exploration center, which will be the first of its kind in history. The far hemisphere of the Moon (which is “dark” in the sense of unexplored, rather than lacking light), was unobserved until 1959 when a Soviet Union probe…
China wants to go to the dark side of the Moon in 2018
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